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Scientists create GM cow to cut milk allergies in children
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Salman Khan to talk about his dream for education reform
I do. It's not so benign as to be out of boredom, but out of the perverse English character. I'm sure Heathrow is some Enochian pun related to jumping between hell, purgatory, and limbo.

(Yeah, yeah, don't put on your clever pants, I know where limbo is!)
Space tourism, cheap comms, sell the platforms to the military, space solar, be the first to get your DNA all over a new planet.

Although if it's true that it's cheaper to get the resources on earth than to bring them down from space then it does put a big hole in their current business plan.
ammm...but the iPhone 5 was released on september 21. How can you even compare?
Except Google adding whatever they feel like to Chrome and feature hungry devs pushing users to Chrome because MSIE lacks "HTML5 support", when what they mean is that they want to use last week's experimental APIs in production sites today.

And only writing for webkit when doing mobile. Screw Firefox, or Opera or webstandards in general. Weehoo iPhone! (May also not break on Android)

It's already a strong trend. I say the fear is justified.
A more accurate headline: "Apple fails to make enough iPhones to meet first-week demand in UK."

The iPhone 5 is extremely supply constrained at the moment so how many were sold in the UK last month would depend on how many units Apple chose to allocate to that market during that very brief initial period. Which might well have been a small number, but the number is arbitrary and not much of a reflection of demand for the phone. (Note that if they had sold more in the UK, they would have had to sell fewer somewhere else and you could write this same article about that other location instead).
Thanks for the feedback. With the advances in browser technologies as well as the growing strength of the modern quilting movement we're hoping there is a strong interest in that segment. Time will of course tell and we're excited to see what can be done in a cross platform way.
Just changed it. I was hoping people wouldn't mix and match, but I don't mind using `o` instead:

https://github.com/davejacobs/letters/issues/6
What is Alibaba.com? What isn't Alibaba.com?
Ask HN: What happened to the Nexus 7?
Over the summer I remember reading about the high anticipation for Google's Nexus 7 tablet. However, the launch itself seemed lackluster and I have never seen one in the wild.

Was there a flaw with the Nexus 7? Did consumers simply not adopt it? Is it successful and just under-publicized?

In my case, I was ready to pre-order a Nexus 7 but the fact that I had to use Google's payment gateway instead of just Amazon turned out to cause me enough hesitation that I did not purchase the product.
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I don't think the intention of the author in that second statement was to say that design isn't subjective, just that the entire process isn't. I do agree with what you say afterwards and I don't think it was the best way for the author to portray his point but I believe the message was to be that it had subjective elements along with a research-based and founded process.
As much as I would put the link as bait, how would we know about the 5 million iphone if Apple doesn't share its sales figures ?
An account is still a barrier. They could create a "click to read and respond" link that contains an access token.
> Posner's positions, and the frank and open manner with which he expresses them, are a much needed breath of fresh air from a legal system that is all too esoteric. Especially with regard to patents.

To be fair, Posner is also a poster-boy for judicial activism. Much of what seems "esoteric" in law is actually the attempt to give effect to fine distinctions made in statutes and in previous cases. If you ride roughshod over all that and decide cases according to sweeping principles, it's much easier to be open and succinct.
If it was necessary to file an appeal clearly there is some truth to what I said - or WIPO would never issue a decision that needed to be overturned.

As for the appeals process itself, yet it is a loophole that you can file an appeal in front of any podunk judge that will hear the case, whether or not he's ever even been on the internet or knows what a domain name is - and if that judge finds in your favor, you get to keep the domain. Again, that doesn't make what I said untrue.
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The number will be meaningless until Apple gets to a point that supply is equal to demand. Either that or they should hire a polling company to poll 1,000 people to find out which phone they'd prefer.

While I'm not an Apple fan, the Android ecosystem and manufacturers still have a long way to go to compete at the same level as Apple. It's still like PCs vs. Macs out there (though getting better).
The characteristic of the pharmaceutical industry that is usually cited as making patents essential is that it costs an average of $150 million to get a new drug through FDA approval. Without the temporary exclusion that patents provide, there would be no way to recoup this cost.

I am firmly of the opinion that patents are used for this because no legal alternative has been provided. But it is easy to imagine a more targeted property right for this case that would serve the same purpose as patents, except more efficiently. And my standard example of an inefficiency of the current situation is that there is good evidence that hookworm is an effective treatment for Crohn's disease, but since hookworm is not patentable, there is no prospect that this treatment will ever get evaluated.
You made your decision based on a payment gateway... ?
Anonymous targets Swedish government after raid on WikiLeaks ISP
Aaaaaaaaaaaarggghhh ugghhhh NO
I've got one. It's nice. Not iPad nice, but nice. I think it's mostly forgotten because Google really doesn't know how to do e-commerce. Play.Google.com/store is a mess. And the order process was such a mess I was skeptical that the order went through until the box arrived - and then a day later I received the shipping number and order confirmation.

It's not like anyone has to invent e-commerce anymore. It's pretty much solved from the UX all the way down to the taxonomy.
Worked for me after a refresh. A little buggy, but very cool. Imagine putting this on audio/video playlists for a simple skip feature.
The original blog post is one of a pair of related posts by Gary Becker and Steve Posner. The other was discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4595153.
And sold out in many places, too, so demand can't be measured by sales.
Hang on people... The whole 'Randall Rocks/cool factor' aside, let us not forget the purpose of information visualisation.

I don't see much discussion about the ability of these charts to condense large amounts of data into compact spaces. No mention of these devices ability to encode a concept into a visual experience... Not to put too fine a point to it but... What Would Edward Tufte Say?
The irony of course is that Amazon and Google are at war.
You can revert to the snapshot so there isn't really a problem, although that can be quite finicky and probably take longer to setup than the time saved avoiding fsyncs.

Note that btrfs will be just fine on unexpected power outage - the filesystem will just contain some random combination of old and new files affected by the installation.
You have some very interesting points.

My mom always says(Who had a working career of almost 30 years), that working women live in a world of their own. Her sisters never went to work. She always found that amazing, that a few individuals can spend their whole life doing nothing. Yet now when you talk to my aunts they live in their own world where they have every reason in the world why not working is right. When they both talk about it, men and their influences rarely pop up. Its always discussions about work life balance, stress, affects on kids and own physical and biological selves.

In my opinion the bigger struggle in empowering women will not be to counsel men, but women themselves. Most women who don't go to work do for their own reasons, and not because men don't want them to work. If you can convince women to come out of their comfort zones, take risks, try and even taste failure at times. Let me tell you women will be far well off.

But there are always going to jobs which are going to very demanding for women. There are also security issues with respect to working and traveling late nights, pushing very tough long work hour schedules. Most of those clots will dissolve slowly with time.

Remember in ancient times, women used to work in fields with men all the time and that generally used to do a lot of work more physically demanding than what most women have today. If it worked fine then, it can now. But the transformation will be slow.
I think the term you're looking for is UDP hole punching, port knocking is performing a special sequence of connections (i.e. try TCP on 8100 then UDP on 4000 then TCP on 2000) to open up an additional port (like SSH) to a certain IP.

I'd be curious if there exists such a company or even any good open source libraries that can tie into other servers.
awesome. thanks for sharing!
Cool! I still have a 24-faced hexaflexagon I made in high school (we're talking 1974). I used onionskin paper, and drew the triangle pattern on it with an HP plotter attached to an HP 9830 programmable desktop calculator. (Drawing it by hand with a ruler didn't provide the requisite level of accuracy for such a high-order flexagon.)
inoremap jj <Esc>

Same solution here. This favors people who tend to move from top to bottom during skimming a piece of code utilizing the j-key to move further down, which then let's you automagically exit EDIT-mode. Happens to me every fourth/fifth time.

Earlier it was more often. However, as skills develop I increasingly rarely use the hjkl-keys.

These days vim is placed at the end of a git/grep toolchain and most likely I tend to "/\v" for something or move more like "45j" directly to the place in focus (relativenumbers are your friend). Being in a row the natural tendency now is to jump with "f" or "F" and repeating with ";" if necessary.

If you passed this milestone already, your opinion is highly welcome!
Be proud, your domain has made BlueCoat's list of "proxy avoidance" sites and is blocked at my workplace.
I launch innumerable copies of mutt without -R, and have never had any conflicts.

Like the original poster, I'm using offlineimap and maildir's entirely.

What kind of conflicts do you get?
Interesting. On Microsoft's own site they have http://support.microsoft.com/kb/93362 which does not list 4.0.

I see 4.0 listed on the page. It's right at the bottom -- twice.
Didn't work for me either on MacBook Air and Chrome 22.0.1229.79.
It's interesting that "set autoindent" is so common. I replaced this with "filetype indent on" some years ago, since I'd rather have language-sensitive indentation.
All currencies are 'managed' by central banks. All currencies have depreciated in value by central bank inflation.

The only difference is the degree to which the currency has been devalued. Swiss Franc - not so much until recently (in repsonse to Euro devaluation). Argentinian Peso - lots.

This is not really an argument - all Central banks have inflation as one of their core aims - it's just a matter of degree how much inflation they have created. We are in an era of competitive currency devaluations when even the Swiss are getting in on the act.

The USD is different because it acts as the world reserve currency, and the one in which oil is priced. It used to have a quasi-link to gold until Nixon closed the Gold window, which, unsurprisingly dropped the value.

>Gold is not a sensible measure of value because gold is not a currency. It is a metal with multiple competing uses, only one of which is as a store of value.

It's more sensible than paper money as a store of value over the long term. The mean failure rate for paper currencies is 100% - it's just a matter of measuring the longevity.

But you don't have to use Gold to compare. You can compare oil to any number of commodities (wheat, copper, cotton) and you'll see that historically they trade in a range, which is consistent with oil note becoming more expensive particularly faster than anything else.
Same problem here.

For a demo like this where failures can be caused by user error instead of app error, you should consider overlaying a tiny rectangle on screen that shows the webcam captured frames with an overlay of the recognition, so it's easier to tell if it's user error.
Same error MacBook Air and Chrome 23.0.1271.10 dev
The reason is because people are waiting for the IPhone 5S.

(I know the figures may not be accurate so this is just for laughs.)
But the solution to that problem (using a cryptographic hash function randomized with a secret) doesn't change the complexity of the algorithm.
How families spend in different countries.
Question: how could this be exploited to provide unknowing access to a webcams via modifying this .js to run on a subjectively trusted page?

Forgive me if I am being naive but just curious if this could be turned into something that accesses my webcam nefariously?

Anyone on HN willing to test if this is possible?
Very interesting. I can't speak to the podcast but I highly recommend the transcript.

My takeaways:

(1) If you are an expert in something and are disciplined enough to set up a consistent routine for writing you can probably write an ebook.
(2) At least for designers you probably don't need to sell in any format but pdf.
(3) If you want to maximise your reach or the growth in your personal brand it may be best to sell something at impulse buy levels.
(4) To maximise the cash you earn directly, in sales, you should offer different packages at different price points.
(5) Both of these authors spent significant time and money (works out very similarly) on layout, look and feel, different formats.

Personal commentary

Ebooks do not need to be that long, at least technical ones. Sometimes books can be dense or have content that is valuable not because it's hard to understand but because rediscovering it yourself takes valuable time. I don't think either author put in more than 200 hours work; I don't believe either put in more than 150.

You should offer at least three packages if you're price segmenting. This has two purposes, the middle package looks totally reasonable compared to the premium one but if you only have more or less impulse buy and middle people will go impulse. The bigger reason is that most of your money will come from people buying the complete package for whom real actionable advice saves them their time and money, or people with corporate credit cards for whom the difference between $50 and $150 is non-existent.

I doubt if having more than five packages helps because that's about the limit of gradations people can hold in their heads intuitively rather than as abstractions. The reasoning for three packages is given above, anchoring. Probably a good idea to a/b test it.
Would love to see something similar for "emacs"

I just learned something new for example today - using the ".dir-locals.el" to specify per-directory variables :)

I want to learn vi/vim, but spent already so much time learning emacs (and still feeling baby in it... which is good!)
> Know any port knocking as a service companies?

Are you serious?
usapple.org is obviously not infringing.

Apple is a tricky word because it's also generic. It's easier to discuss this when we're talking about an obvious trademark.

See: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-disputes-21-squa...

Those domains and bogusapple.com, as it is used here, are identical - and they are frequently lost by their owners whenever the people who own the trademarks go after them.

As DannyBee alluded to, when those corporations go up against deep pocketed squatters with good domain lawyers, they can sometimes be outsmarted and not get the domains. But the vast majority of the time they are successful.
Mu metal is the recommended material.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu-metal
Yeah... back in the good ol' days of "application"!
Did they remove IRC? I can't seem to find it.
I'll make an equally bold prediction, Tent will fall on its face while App.net powers on into the future.

My reasoning is that it reaches too far without a safety net of a business model. Assuming Dalton is being truthful in his post, he's not cutting prices because he "didn't get traction" he's cutting prices because his business model is out performing his expectations, and rather than go for a higher net early on he's re-investing that margin into growing the user base.

Tent is going 'old school' like the old IETF protocols, that means waiting for adoption, having a variety of implementations, establishing a consensus, moving forward. That works great in a green field situation, but this isn't it. Look at the OpenMoko effort, free Phone OS, build it and they will come? No. Reaching too far without a model to nourish early adoption and growth. Influential? Sure but killer? Not so much.

Dalton has something which Tent does not, people willing to spend money to use it. That is why I think Tent will be a memory long before we see the end of App.net.
How to compare? how many of phone X was sold in its first week and how many of phone Y was sold in its first week. Pretty simple. I'm not sure what the article has for numbers as I go by what I want when I buy a phone (or anything really) and not how many have been sold...
Cool idea, thanks for sharing.
Same, using 22.0.1229.79 on Mountain Lion.
Well, it's opt-in. So unknowing access is (at least without further actions) not possible.

getUserMedia: "Prompts the user for permission to use their Web cam or other video or audio input." [1]

By the way: The example doesn't work for me either.

[1] http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/getusermedia.html
I can attest to this. I tried to learn programming MULTIPLE times, giving up each time within days. Recently I was sitting on an idea for a web startup, and when I say "sitting," I mean sitting on it for 6+ months.

Story short, I threw my hands up and tried to learn programming again. It's only been about a month, but it's been fun so far and it's a month longer than I had tried in the past.
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Lightweight webserver: how to install Monkey
The iHole, by Julian Gough
Try isync. I had some crashes with 1.0.4 but 1.0.5 has been working well: http://isync.sourceforge.net/
Perhaps I saw that link on Reddit?
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No unfortunately not.
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It would be great if someone could write good text email client. I recently tried some old ones I used in the 90s again, and the quality of software has improved a lot since then.

Mutt:

- gets SSL errors with MS Exchange (gnu bug?), doesn't retry the connection and then stops displaying all your email.

- could never get html to text rendering working, almost all emails blank

- gave up on mutt...

Alpine:

- did actually covert html emails to text fine, most emails are readable

- no key rebindins (sic), I have ^T bound to new-window in tmux, too bad that's the only way to run spell check in alpine is to press ^T

- lose connection to IMAP server causes already downloaded mail to no longer be displayed on the screen

- quirky LDAP lookups, I can't type peoples full names, only their login names, then it resolves them fine

- tried to put my IMAP folder first on the list in the config file to make it faster to get to my inbox, crash

- tried to have it startup in my inbox using the startup key sequence, crash

- if there's one letter in my drafts folder, it asks me every time if I wan't to continue it when I compose a new message

- asks me every time if I want to reply to everyone, and if I say yes, it includes me(!?) so I get a dup email

- has pine's legendary inconstant key bindings (or is that a feature?)

- sending a message hangs the whole client until it's been sent

- no real concept of a deleted folder, just puts a D next to it and leaves it displayed on your screen, so you have to expunge manually if you don't want it to clutter your screen

- all in all, alpine is usable though, but there's plenty annoying things in it we used to think were normal back when pine was popular.
Didn't work for me in Chrome.
I was expecting it to prompt me for permission - nothing came up.
I tried swiping a couple times just in case =P
It wasn't intentional - it was a question of convenience. I searched for the Nexus 7 on the Amazon app on iPhone after reading the story, but then found out that I needed to pay on Google. I didn't want to fill out the payment info for Google on my phone as a matter of convenience, and I never returned to Google's site from my laptop to follow through with purchasing.
I have a feeling that your economic worldview is built out of mises.org articles.

Central banks vary wildly in their policies and work differently. Generalising from the Federal Reserve to other banks is troublesome.

For example, the Fed is very secretive compared to some banks. An enormous amount of effort is spent second-guessing it and it is nigh impossible to guess what it's going to do.

Meanwhile, in Australia, the Reserve Bank publishes its minutes, the Governor of the RBA makes regular speeches about monetary policy and its single policy objective (to keep underlying inflation in a 2-3% band) is widely understood and has never been deviated from. Markets and economists predict its next move correctly about 80% of the time.

Similarly, the Bundesbank and through their influence the ECB has well understood targets for monetary and fiscal policy; they've used monetary policy levers to affect the mix of taxation, spending and borrowing in the direction of financial rectitude. I don't think that's the right way to go about it, but everyone knows what they want and how they intend to do it. Super Mario's announcement of unlimited bond purchases is the first time the Bundesbank has been sidelined.

The USD is not the only reserve currency -- most central banks hold a mix of special drawing rights, USD, EUR, other currencies and yes, some still hold a bit of gold. You don't hedge risk through putting everything in the gold basket and betting on fluctuations in demand and supply that have no relationship to the general economy. You spread your risk onto multiple currencies.

Anyhow, it seems like we agree that the price of oil is rising. It's just that you see it as due entirely to the massive increase in the USD supply in past years; I'm saying that some of it is related to basic supply/demand as well and we can see this by examining its movement in other currencies.
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